UAW stays additional strike expansion

Highlights: Over the past 24 hours, two of the “Big Three” automakers made new offers to the autoworkers union as its strike stretches into its fifth week, United Auto Workers (UAW) union President Shawn Fain said during remarks.

“This week, we saw the companies trying to get in line with one another. Now we need to move that line across all three,” Fain said.

The union has a 23 percent wage hike on the table, up from 9 percent when negotiations started, and said it had made progress in work-life balance, cost of living adjustments and retirement benefits.

But the two sides don’t seem any closer to a deal.